Study Indicates Organic Foods Are Best for Children
By Marla Cone
Switching to organic foods provides children “dramatic and immediate” protection from widely used pesticides that are used on a variety of crops, according to a new study by a team of federally(U.S) funded scientists.
The health effects of exposure to minute amounts of pesticides found in food are largely unknown, especially for children. Some research, however, suggests that the residue may harm the developing nervous system.
Full article by: Mike Adams:here
The giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence cancer-causing chemicals found in popular food products.
1. The ingredients listed on the label aren’t the only things in the food.
2. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is added to thousands of food and grocery products through a dozen different innocent-sounding ingredients, imbalances endocrine system function, disabling normal appetite regulation and causing consumers to keep eating more food
3. MSG is routinely hidden in foods in these ingredients: yeast extract, torula yeast, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed yeast.
4. ADHD in children is caused almost entirely by the consumption of processed food ingredients such as artificial colors and refined carbohydrates. Eighty percent of so-called ADHD children who are taken off processed foods are cured of ADHD in two weeks.
5. The chemical sweetener aspartame, when exposed to warm temperatures for only a few hours, begins to break down into chemicals like formaldehyde and formic acid.
6. Most food dips (like guacamole dip) are made with hydrogenated oils, artificial colors and monosodium glutamate. Many guacamole dips don’t even contain avocados.
7. Plastic food packaging is a potent health hazard.
8. Milk produced in the United States comes from cows injected with synthetic hormones that have been banned in every other advanced nation in the world.
9. Most grocery products that make loud health claims on their packaging are, in reality, nutritionally worthless (like meal replacement shakes, instant chocolate milk, etc.).
10. Food manufacturers actually “buy” shelf space and position at grocery stores.
Farms, Factories and Food. The corporate media often wring their hands about the rise of obesity and heart disease in the U.S. But rarely do they acknowledge the root causes: The American diet has become a wasteland of poor nutrition and ill health. We now obtain our daily bread (and meat) from vast corporations that hook us on processed foods, Genetically Modified Organisms, chemical flavorings, and the flesh of tortured, captive animals–often raised under horrific conditions. This special report, sprinkled with satire and rare archival footage (including a jaunty William Shatner), lays out in compelling detail why it’s time to return to our organic, plant-loving roots, for a healthier, less destructive world.
Organic farmers worry GM canola will be uncontrollable
Organic farmers are warning that the release of genetically-modified (GM) canola could be a disaster for conventional farmers.
Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran wants bans on GM canola lifted, allowing farmers to commercially grow the herbicide-resistant crop.
Robyn Grant from the Organic Agriculture Association says GM canola will become an uncontrollable weed.
She says herbicide-resistant canola will invade other grain crops and will cross with similar-species crops like cauliflower and broccoli.
“We’re going to be in the same position that we’ve got for any feral species of weed or animal in this country,” she said.
“You just have to go into the grain growing areas in Australia in the spring, especially in South Australia and Victoria and New South Wales and you just see this yellow flower growing everywhere. That is canola.”
Richard Linklater’s FAST FOOD NATION traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories – from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention – “The Big One” – is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into.
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Parents have been warned of the effects of food additives on their children’s behaviour after new research found a possible link to hyperactivity. A Food Standards Agency (FSA) study of 300 random children found they behaved impulsively and lost concentration after a drink containing additives . . more
A great article by Ysanne Spevack, ( editor of OrganicFood.co.uk) who after many years as a conscientious vegan made the decision to eat organic meat.
exerpts:
I eat meat. Organic meat, about once a fortnight. I have been vegetarian or vegan for the best part of twenty years. I was a vegan throughout the period when I traveled extensively around the world. Despite the extreme difficulties of finding anything at all to eat that wasn’t beef in Columbia, I remained a vegan. Even though I would have loved to have tried authentic Japanese sushi whilst living in Tokyo, I stayed true to my beliefs and refrained from all fish.
I don’t want to eat non-organic meat. It is poisonous, because it contains the residues of a daily dose of antibiotics and growth hormones fed to distressed animals living in barbaric conditions. I don’t want to eat non-organic dairy products, because the toxic residues from intensively farmed dairy cows are stored in fats, particularly cream. I will always be disgusted about the uncivilised and inhumane way in which battery farmed poultry are mistreated throughout their artificially short and horrible lives. But I have grown to feel comfortable with the thought of truly free-range chickens eating appropriate food in a suitable farmyard with the grim reality of ending up as my dinner. I still have trouble reconciling the thought of drinking the milk of a much larger beast than myself with more than one stomach and hooves. Especially as I am over the age of toddling by a long shot. But I somehow can’t resist some expertly crafted cheeses, and blissfully gobble them up whilst trying not to think of where they came from.
You simply cannot grow organic lettuces without using organic fertilisers made from blood products. And soil fertility is traditionally enriched with manure and animal waste. Wild herb seeds are distributed by farm animals, too, such as the clover maintained by grazing cows.
